Electric Ireland customers are being targetted in a phishing attack The attack uses the ploy of a refund being granted to them to entice them to login to the fake website. Of course nobody’s really interested in your electricity bill. What they’re really after is your credit card details, so once you’ve been duped into […]
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Irish Water Targetted In Email Phishing Scam
Irish Water has been targetted in an email phishing scam sent to Irish internet users this morning. The email, in common with most phishing scams, uses elements from the Irish Water corporate branding, but is rather badly worded: If you click on the hyperlink in the email you will end up at what appears to […]
Infographic: How CCTV Can Be Used In Criminal Investigations
The guys over at JMC Technologies have produced an interesting graphic which explores how CCTV can be used in criminal investigations. I’m not sure how many video cameras there are in Irish towns and cities, but I suspect the number has been growing over the last few years.
Podcast: “Waving a Massive Red Flag” [Audio]
Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon joins me for a chat on this week’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 31:48; 18MB; MP3. Michele thinks Ashley Madison, the cheaters website whose entire user database has been compromised, was asking for trouble. By that, he doesn’t mean that they’ve been smitten for their […]
Personal Significance is the Key to Password Protection [Video]
What makes a good password? It should be easy to remember, and difficult to crack. According to security researcher Per Thorsheim, those two properties can reinforce each other. The key is to make a password personally significant to the user yet very long – e.g. a sentence. If I ask you to remember a random number, like 37824601, it […]
SpunOut.ie and Twitter Launch new ‘Online Safety Hub’ to mark Safer Internet Day 2015
SpunOut.ie, Ireland’s youth information website, has partnered with social networking platform Twitter to launch a new ‘Online Safety Information Hub’ to mark Safer Internet Day 2015 (February 10th). Each year the global online safety community celebrates Safer Internet Day to raise awareness of the steps we can all take to make the internet a better […]
TOR for Newbies: How and Why to Use it [Infographic]
There’s a lot of talk about privacy at the moment, and the use of encryption tools by individuals and organisations. UK prime minister David Cameron thinks that no-one should have privacy, while many people believe that strong encryption is a critical tool, both for democracy and for business. There are many others who feel ill-informed and ill-equipped on the subject. […]
SpunOut.ie Privacy Workshop with Tommy Collison this Wednesday
SpunOut.ie, the youth information service, is holding a privacy workshop on this Wednesday January 7 at its headquarters in Temple Bar. The event will be led by privacy activist Tommy Collison, whom we interviewed in a podcast just before Christmas. Tommy’s already run a couple of these events in New York, where he is a student of journalism. Back home in Ireland […]
RFID-Blocking Jeans & Jacket Protects Against Identity Theft
You’ve heard of tinfoil hats? Now US online clothing company Betabrand has teamed up with Norton to bring you RFID-blocking jeans and a blazer, to protect against ID theft. [youtube]http://youtu.be/G11xHMvhq3E[/youtube] Credit and debit cards are increasingly equipped with RFID or NFC technology for contactless payments, and the technology is also used in passports. However there […]
Are You a Robot? Google’s new CAPTCHA is that Simple
Google has updated its reCAPTCHA, anti-bot system to cut down on the number of times it needs to ask you to identify distorted text. It turns out the bots are getting better at reading distorted text, as good as 98.9% accurate. Google, meanwhile, has developed advanced risk analysis of users’ behaviour which allows it give most humans a pass, […]